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Gaaark [soylentnews.org] writes:

For an interesting wikipedia article on the history of computers/hardware, the link below will lead you to as many links as you may want to follow.
I remember my dad talking about punching cards to Program the huge computer at Queens university. In high school, I was filling in the cards with a pencil.
My young (at the time) brother-in-law won a vic-20 and was typing his commands.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware [wikipedia.org]

My first personal computer was an Acorn Atom... I could only dream of the 64k that Bill Gates said was enough for anyone. I could never get the cassette tape to record my carefully typed and debugged programs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Atom [wikipedia.org]

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